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Even in the midst of climate change we should be thinking about an outdoor...
A few weeks ago, I walked past the block-long “ice bar” on the north end of Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, a fun and sparsely attended gimmick that was none-too-slowly melting into a puddle....
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Dark streetlights in St. Paul are yet another reminder of how public life is...
A few weeks ago, on a disturbingly pleasant winter afternoon where the temperature flirted with 50 degrees, I took my 2-year-old daughter to a campfire picnic at Como Park. Naturally, we soon found...
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Former Minneapolis 2040 leader: Cynical use of environmental laws and...
Heather Worthington may not be a household name, but she’s had a huge impact on the city of Minneapolis. As director of long-range planning during some critical years, Worthington led the city’s...
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MnDOT poised to reduce or remove ‘original sin’ Minneapolis freeway: Olson...
As harms of urban freeways have become clear over the last few decades, there’s a lot of talk about freeway removal in the U.S. Yet actual progress — the disappearance of concrete and asphalt — has...
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The Minnesota building code should loosen up about single-stair buildings
A question comes up frequently in my years of writing about urban development, and it’s one of my least favorite: “Why do new buildings all look the same?” For one thing, it’s a rather timeless...
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MinnPost to deliver enhanced version of Cityscape to newsletter subscribers...
Urban geographer Bill Lindeke has been writing for MinnPost for over a decade, bringing readers insights and observations like these: To watch the city’s lights go dark is like death by a thousand...
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In a pleasant surprise, new plan for downtown St. Paul is full of good ideas;...
These days, my favorite downtown St. Paul spot is Lost Fox, a coffee shop/restaurant/bar next to the Union Depot light rail stop. The building has no parking and had formerly been home to three...
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Minneapolis zoning code’s centennial is the perfect time for the state to...
One hundred years ago, the city of Minneapolis adopted its first-ever zoning code. Prior to 1924, through the boom years that grew the population to over 400,000 people, there were essentially no...
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The 19 Bar was a thriving remnant of a fast-changing Minneapolis...
Sometime on the night of March 23, a 10-ton garbage truck collided with a wooden utility pole in an old alley on the edge of downtown Minneapolis. Unfortunately, the pole carried an electrical...
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Five years in, Allianz Field parking shuttle predictions were wrong, but more...
The Major League Soccer season kicked off in St. Paul a few weeks ago, marking five years for Allianz Field, the shiny silver stadium in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood. For me, stadium history goes...
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